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Racing legend Arie Luyendyk talks trends ins high-performance automotive engineering with EE Times' Brian Fuller.
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Ron Freeman, CEO of AAMP of America, talks about his company's iSimple car-stereo gateway solutions.
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National Science Foundation’s Errol Arkilic lays out the goals of the agency’s new Innovation Corps designed to move promising technologies from universities labs to emerging tech markets.
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Mike Sinclair of Green Energy Corp. gives a tour of NC State's FREEDM Center and all the cool smart-grid solutions being developed there.
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Bruce Imsand of MaxVision (Huntsville, Ala.) talks about building a company that's used commercial off-the-shelf parts to build a thriving military computing business.
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Eliza Nelson, an FAE with Avnet, talks about the value of female role models in becoming an engineer and how diversity helps build better teams.
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Eliza Nelson, an FAE with Avnet, talks about the tenacity it takes to become a female engineer in a profession dominated by older men.
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Orion Project at the USA Science and Engineering Festival
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We caught up with author and former NASA engineer Homer Hickam during the USA Science and Engineering Festival in Washington.
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Munro & Associates' Al Steier and TechInsights' John Scott-Thomas analyze the Chevy Volt's battery pack in the first of three Drive for Innovation teardown sessions.
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How many engineering students can you fit into the Chevy Volt? The folks from ITT visiting the Avnet Tech Games were up to the challenge.
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GATR Technologies founder and CEO Dan Gierow shows off his company's portable, inflatable (and round) satellite receiver.
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Electric bicycles are coming down in cost and are amazing feats of engineering. But how do they stack up on the quarter-mile against a Chevy Volt??
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Solar manufacturing startup Twin Creek Technologies claims it has found a way to produce extremely thin yet flexible solar cells. By reducing material costs and adding value in the manufacturing process, solar cell production could again become a pro...
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Steve Sanghi, Microchip Technologies: Are tech jobs returning to the U.S.?
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Thomas Dolby entertains as he tells how his musical career in the 1980s morphed into a technology career and back again. Here's a ten-minute excerpt from his DESIGN West keynote on March 27, 2012 in San Jose, Ca.
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Brian Fuller hosts a panel on innovation challenges at Design West 2012 with James Truchard of National Instruments, Jeff Lawson of Shockwave Impact, Rich Szczepkowski of SWEMCO and Dave Lentz of Avnet.
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LeCroy used DESIGN West to introduce and demonstrate the WaveStation, its new benchtop function/arbitrary waveform generator. The device comes in 10-, 25-, and 50-MHz versions with a sampling rate of 125 Msamples/s, 14-bit front-end resolution and tw...
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Brian Fuller and the red Chevy Volt have driven thousands of miles around America and had many adventures and misadventures. Here are a few.
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Highlights from the 2012 EE Times/EDN ACE Awards, honoring innovation in electronics.
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John Zysman, co-author of the influential 1987 book, “Manufacturing Matters: The Myth of Post-Industrial Economy,” discusses the relationship of production to the burgeoning services sector and how technologies like “cloud computing” can be used to e...
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Students demo intelligent car designs at Freescale Cup at Embedded World 2012.
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Adam Nepp and Scott Wohler are longtime friends. So what would possess them to start an electronics company together?
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Founders Adam Nepp and Scott Wohler describe their body-monitoring technology, what works best in wireless design and the art of the startup.
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Executives from Small HD, Elster, Consert, and Energy Micro talk about balancing technological creativity and profitability at a gathering in Raleigh, N.C.
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The team at Catalyst Manufacturing in Mooresville, N.C., raffled off chances for employees to drive the Volt. The first winner couldn't have been a more entertaining choice.
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Should Steve Jobs be considered such a saint if he refused to even consider Obama's suggestion to bring manufacturing jobs back to the U.S? Junko Yoshida, editor in chief of EE TImes, wonders if we've given up.
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If we didn't make things, we'd be "standing in the yard, cold, naked and hungry." Thus spaketh Don Morgan, a tech teacher in a tiny Georgia town, where he's making a difference.
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Forrest Huff, Regional Sales Manager of Interconnect Systems Inc., answers the question "are jobs coming back to the United States?" Dylan McGrath of EE Times asked the question at DesignCon 2012.
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Dale Hanzekla, Director of North America Sales, Intercept Technology Inc. answers the question "are jobs coming back to the United States?" Dylan McGrath of EE Times asked the question at DesignCon 2012.
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Steve Smith, Product Manager, L-Com Global Connectivity answers the question "are jobs coming back to the United States?" Dylan McGrath of EE Times asked the question at DesignCon 2012.
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Thomas Smith, Regional Manager of Positronic Industries Inc., answers the question "are jobs coming back to the United States?" Dylan McGrath of EE Times asked the question at DesignCon 2012.
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Lee W. Ritchey, President of Speeding Edge, answers the question "are jobs coming back to the United States?" Dylan McGrath of EE Times asked the question at DesignCon 2012.
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Video Interview discussing the need for isolation in solar inverters.
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UMass Amherst engineering professor Baird Soules describes Emma 5 a robotic, remote-controled, WiFi-enabled wheelchair.
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Innovation is innovation. Sometimes you need to learn about revolution.
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UMass Amherst engineering professor Baird Soules talks us through student project that uses an Arduino board to recreate arcade sounds from bygone days.
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TE Connectivity vice president of engineering Steve Jackson and product engineer Galen Martin identify the biggest challenges to innovation.
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Rochester Electronics Microelectronics Assembly Manager Thomas Horgan discusses the importance of keeping manufacturing close to home.
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VP of Technology Fred Bargetzi shows off Crestron Electronics new mobile-phone app to control home lighting from anywhere.
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VP of Technology Fred Bargetzi decribes how Crestron Electronics has evolved from a company making single remote-control devices for the home into an entertainment and envrionment-systems architecture powerhouse.
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An amazing gesture-based demo from Jeff Bier of BDTI and the Embedded Vision Alliance gives a glimpse of the promise of this emerging technology.
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Lee Bristol, co-founder of Standard solar, talks to us about his company and renewable energy--while sitting on his roof.
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Sightseeing and driving in rush-hour traffic can be a dumb idea, especially in Washington, D.C.
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Near Clarksburg, West Virginia, the Volt crosses the magic 10,000-mile barrier
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TDI Power VP of engineering offers a tour of his sporty red belt-driven electric vehicle.
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Adapteva CEO and founder Andreas Olofsson talks about his startup processor company in a small office on a famous Revolutionary War road.
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Engineering students don't usually get to work with satellites, unless you come up with a novel, terrestrial version of them.
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Cadence blogger and longtime electronics-industry journalist Richard Goering talks about the EDA industry's climb up the abstraction ladder and how he's survived 27 Design Automation Conferences
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Mentor Graphics CEO Wally Rhines on the EDA industry's outlook and why he wasn't surprised the Japan quake impact was minimal.
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Simon Segars from ARM discusses a new ARM community to address designers' information needs as they start SoC designs.
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An amazing gesture-based demo from Jeff Bier of BDTI and the Embedded Vision Alliance gives a glimpse of the promise of this emerging technology.
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EDA industry analyst Gary Smith says electronic system-level design has arrived as an accepted mainstream methodology
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Jim Hogan and Paul McLellan talk about what it takes to launch an EDA startup today
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Altera's Nirmal Kari describes his company’s first implementation of a MIPS-based soft processor for its FPGAs.
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Cypress's Gahan Richardson unveils the winners of the company's design contest using its PSOC programmable device
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Cypherbridge President Steve Delaney and marketing director Mette McCall talk about their latest products and the state of the embedded market
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A team of all freshman from a Sparta (Wisc.) High School talk about their winning design project
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The Hitex Development Tools Safety Concept supports the certification process of safety-critical applications according to IEC 61508 or ISO 26262 with a comprehensive safety concept. The heart is formed by Infineon’s safety concept PRO-SIL that combi
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Verizon demonstrates its connected home vision – via 4G/LTE – at Consumer Electronics Show.
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Verification guru Brian Bailey talks about the bug in the Intel 6 Series or Cougar chip and the limits of contemporary verification techniques.
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Tiffany Frankovich tells us how she punked colleagues' computer boot sequences with the dulcet tones of Rick Astley. Rick who?
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With an iPad on his hand, Amimon’s CEO Yoav Nissan-Cohen demonstrates at CES how he can wirelessly project photos, films or games from an iPad to a large-screen flat-panel display – via WHDI, without delay.
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EDN Analog Editor Paul Rako and engineers Francis Lau and Eric Schlaepfer tear down the Samsung Galaxy at the 2011 DesignCon in Santa Clara, Calif.
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In a massive attack on the mixed-signal and digital-storage oscilloscope market Agilent Technologies has added two new families - the InfiniiVision 2000 and 3000 X-Series - with 26 models.
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EE Life Editorial Director Brian Fuller interviews Tektronix President Amir Aghdaei at DesignCon 2011
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One of the highlights of DesignCon is end-of-day mingling. Here's a glimpse at the anticipation of the first beer of the second day of DesignCon 2011.
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Smartphone makers will come under closer scrutiny for antenna issues, but the design of the iPhone 4 is as good as any, according to Van Baker, a research vice president at Gartner who attended a briefing at Apple's headquarters.
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The user complaint and return data shows the iPhone 4 does not have a significant antenna design problem, according got Ben Bajarin of Creative Strategies after leaving a briefing at Apple headquarters.
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Phil McKinney, chief technology officer of Hewlett-Packard's personal systems group, showed a prototype flexible display from HP Labs, a technology he said will be a big enabler of future mobile systems.
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With hunger-inspired ingenuity, Brett Raub and his gearhead buddies kludged together a french-fry making machine like no other. You'd never have thought a couple of valves, tubes, scraps of metal and some electronic know-how could do this....
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Stephen Olsen of Mentor Graphics and Jason Kridner of Texas Instruments explain what's so good about Android and why developers should seriously consider using it for their Linux-based applications.
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Kees Janse, a principal scientist at Philips Research gives a demo of audio technology in development to improve the quality of conferencing on a TV. Here he shows reverb cancelation techniques using a microphone array and DSPs.
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Jason Kridner of Texas Instruments and Stephen Olsen of Mentor Graphics explain under what conditions a developer might not choose to opt for Androi.
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Mentor's Stephen Olsen took a minute after his panel on Android at ESC Chicago to explain some of the 'gotchas' developers may run into when using Android. Hint: Stick with the SDK!
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Jason Kridner of TI helps developers decide between Android or MeeGo for applications sitting on top of a Linux platform. Both distributions have their respective advantages, but the choice depends on your performance needs and GUI knowledge.
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Source code licensing is always an interesting topic so in their own words TI's Jason Kridner and Mentor's Stephen Olsen explain the ins and outs of source code licensing with Android.
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Kees Janse, a principal scientist at Philips Research gives a demo of audio technology in development to improve the quality of conferencing on a TV. Here he shows audio localization and video techniques
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Luc Van den Hove, chief executive of Imec, shares his thoughts on CMSO scaling, open innovation and China
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Take your kids to USA Science & Engineering Festival on Oct 23rd and 24th in Washington, DC on National Mall. The event will feature over 1500 fun, hands-on science activities and over 75 stage shows and performances on four stages.
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Guido Dolman, a principal researcher at Imec in Belgium, demos an RF design that can transmit up to 1,024 Kbits/s over five meters at less than 1 milliwatt.
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Internet pioneer Vint Cerf shares his thoughts on best practices for designing the smart electric grid in a keynote at Connectivity Week in Silicon Valley May 2010.
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After a keynote at Connectivity Week, Vint Cerf took questions from the audince on the role of utilities and the dangers of complexity.
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An array of hurdles ranging from making communications gear secure to understanding consumer behaviors stand in the way of flipping on smart electric grids, according to a panel of experts at the Embedded Systems Conference.
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Electric vehicle service stations: Jason Wolf of Better Place explains his company's scheme for switching out batteries to extend range of electric vehicles at his keynote address at the Embedded Systems Conference in San Jose, April 29, 2010.
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Rick Merritt of EE Times moderates the New Horizons in Medical Electronics panel at ESC SV 2010. Sponsored by Texas Instruments, the panel includes Mir Imran, Dan Wallace, Steven Dean, and Jon Adams.
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It's just a matter of when, not if, the electric car becomes ubiquitous, says Jason Wolf, the vice president of Better Place North America. Interviewed by Patrick Mannion (EE Times), Wolf says carbon burners will be museum pieces in the near future.
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Rich Templeton has some inspiring words for engineers. Patrick Mannion of EE Times interviewed him directly after his keynote at ESC Silicon Valley on April 28, 2010.
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ST’s Pasquale Pistorio discusses the five keys to successful technology management in an interview after receiving the EE Times ACE “Lifetime Achievement” Award.
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Yervant Zorian, vice president and chief scientist at Virage Logic, describes the challenges of using intellectual property blocks in system designs and ruminates on the design food chain, the IP infrastructure and the need for more industry conferen...
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CEO Sandeep Vij sits down with Junko Yoshida, editor-in-chief of EE Times, to discuss new partnerships and the near future for MIPs.
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Panelists are: Nick Sugimoto, Honda; Atiq Raza, Kholsa; Marv Bush, Atria; Mark Platshon, VantagePoint, and Mark Gresser, Wildcat at Silicom Ventures event in Mountain View April 13, 2010.
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Space Shuttle Endeavour thundered off the launch pad on a 13-day mission to deliver and install the last major component of the International Space Station.
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